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This book is juicy with field notes-the stories of charismatic individual wolves like the Old Gray Guy, and complex science made understandable and seductively enticing to the reader with even the tiniest interest in wolf survival and natural history. -- Nancy Jo Tubbs * International Wolf *

This exhilarating book is a paean to reasoned argument as illustrated by the biology and management of the wolves of Isle Royale. A remarkable triumph-beautifully crafted. -David W. Macdonald, University of Oxford, editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals This special and original book, which offers valuable lessons on reintroduction and the ramifications of human interactions with the environment, will be widely read, critiqued, and circulated by anyone interested in wolves. Vucetich is a top-notch scientist; everything he writes is fantastic. -Alexandra D. Krevitz, Kunak Ecological Studies Restoring the Balance reveals the importance of understanding what wolves, moose, and other nonhuman stakeholders think, feel, and need-what's in their heads and hearts. Vucetich seamlessly weaves science and ethics into a highly readable narrative that shows why living in balance with the natural world is the only road forward. -Marc Bekoff, coauthor of A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans In Restoring the Balance, Vucetich uses the world-famous, 63-year-long ecological study of wolves on Isle Royale as a lens to examine humanity's relationship with the environment. The result is an intoxicating amalgam of science, fieldcraft, history, philosophy, and conservation policy, bound together by the observations of a skilled and passionate naturalist. -Andrew Loveridge, Oxford University, author of Lion Hearted: The Life and Death of Cecil and the Future of Africa's Iconic Cats Restoring the Balance is a thoughtful journey-an honest, breathtaking, raucous, and playful exploration of the lives and deaths of wolves, moose, and the humans who observe them. John Vucetich creates a masterful blend of memoir, science, and ethics with a message that is both timely and timeless. -Michael Paul Nelson, Oregon State University, co-editor of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril This book is juicy with field notes-the stories of charismatic individual wolves like the Old Gray Guy, and complex science made understandable and seductively enticing to the reader with even the tiniest interest in wolf survival and natural history. -Nancy Jo Tubbs, International Wolf

This book is juicy with field notes—the stories of charismatic individual wolves like the Old Gray Guy, and complex science made understandable and seductively enticing to the reader with even the tiniest interest in wolf survival and natural history. —Nancy Jo Tubbs, International Wolf The book is many things in one: a fascinating memoir, a collection of field notes, a chronology of the 63-year study of the wolves and moose of Isle Royale.... It can even be used as a textbook on environmental history and biology and ecology of wolves and moose. —Community Ecology

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John A. Vucetich is a distinguished professor of wildlife conservation at Michigan Technological University. He is the leader of the Isle Royale wolf-moose project.

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